The nurse is caring for a patient with schizophrenia who has bacterial endocarditis secondary to intravenous drug use. The patient’s antipsychotic medication is changed from risperidone to clozapine. Within days, the patient develops a serious cardiac arrhythmia. The nurse attributes the patient’s arrhythmia to which cause?
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